One of Dilworth School's most prolific sexual offenders is set to spend an extra seven months behind bars after being convicted for abusing five more former students.
It brings ex-chaplain Ross Browne's total number of victims to 19.
The now 75-year-old worked at the boarding school for underprivileged boys from 1980 to 2006.
He was initially sentenced to 6.5 years imprisonment in December 2021 on 16 charges.
After pleading guilty to five further charges of indecently assaulting boys aged between 12 and 16, he's had his term lengthened to seven years and one month.
In a statement today, Dilworth School's trust board said, "When Mr Browne was sentenced in 2021, it was acknowledged by the judge at the time that no sentence of imprisonment will provide solace for the harm faced by former students who were abused at our school. The board agrees with this".
Trust chairman Aaron Snodgrass acknowledged the "inadequate" initial response to complaints about Browne's teaching methods and "familiarity with students" by staff, students and parents.
An independent inquiry report published in September found the school suppressed abuse and protected perpetrators.
Snodgrass referred to the findings, saying inquirers Dame Silvia Cartwright and France Joychild were "unsparingly honest about our school’s historical failures to protect students".
"The Dilworth Trust Board has fully accepted and is acting on all 19 recommendations of the independent inquiry."
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